Mid-Senior Backend Engineer

The Backend department uses modern and innovative technologies to create our world-leading cybersecurity products. We have squads that work towards different goals, but we are mainly known as driven professionals writing quality code.

API Team

As a Backend Developer on our NordVPN API team, you will play a pivotal role in crafting and maintaining the essential microservices that drive NordVPN's unparalleled functionality. We pride ourselves as one of the two core teams at the heart of NordVPN, with occasional projects that span across NordPass, NordLocker, and NordVPN itself. Our passion lies in collaborating closely with other Nord teams to illuminate the path to NordVPN's future.

Your journey with us will be filled with exciting opportunities as you collaborate closely with both your team members and other cross-functional teams to bring our project's vision to life. Embrace a continuous stream of new and challenging projects that keep things fresh, ensuring that boredom never finds its way into your work life.

Main Responsibilities

• Design and develop microservices that cater to the daily needs of millions of NordVPN users, handling a substantial volume of requests per minute with unwavering scalability, stability, and security as top priorities;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and utilization of microservices across NordVPN's suite of products, fostering a unified and seamless experience for our users;
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to colleagues, promoting the development of best practices within the team;
• Play an influential role in shaping the team's vision and contributing to long-range goals;
• Engage in R&D operations whenever required to explore and adopt cutting-edge technologies;
• Foster smooth communication and collaboration between team members and other engineering, product, and design professionals from various teams;
• Exhibit a collaborative mindset, actively participating in discussions, rethinking ideas, and embracing redesigns that lead to shared success within the team and the company

Core Requirements

• Great experience working with backend technologies, ideally with PHP or Go and willingness to learn the other language(s);
• System design is nothing new to you, and you know what patterns to use, when, and why;
• Previous experience in working with REST, GraphQL, K8s, MySQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes and microservice architecture is a significant advantage;
• Passionate about building APIs that are easy to use, well documented, secure and simple to understand;

Tools You Will Use

• Go;
• PHP;
• MySQL;
• Redis;
• Docker;
• Cassandra;
• Helm;
• ArgoCD;
• Kubernetes;

Salary Range

• Gross Salary 3150 - 6950 EUR/Month.

About Us

Nord Security is a global leader in internet privacy and security solutions and Lithuania’s second tech unicorn. Established in 2012, Nord Security now has more than 1400 employees and serves millions of users worldwide. Our team has a global mission to shape a more secure and peaceful online future for people everywhere. With that in mind, we built several advanced cybersecurity solutions: NordVPN, NordLayer, NordLocker, NordPass, NordProtect, NordStellar, and Saily.

NordVPN is the world’s most advanced VPN service provider, used by millions of internet users worldwide. NordVPN provides double VPN encryption and Onion Over VPN and guarantees privacy with zero tracking. One of the key features of the product is Threat Protection, which blocks malicious websites, malware, trackers, and ads. NordVPN is very user friendly, offers one of the best prices on the market, and has over 5,000 servers in 59 countries worldwide.

And we’re always looking to expand our team of:

• Future shapers

• Restless achievers

• Self-movers

• Honest communicators

• Team players

What We Offer

• Access to Nord Security products. We build solutions used by millions of users worldwide, and you’ll get to experience our products firsthand;

• Professional growth. Internal and external events, online training, conferences, books - everything you need to reach full potential;

• Health benefits. Private health insurance, online and on-site workouts, consultations to feel and be your best;

• Mental wellbeing. Access to mental health tools like Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic. Options for therapy to keep your emotional wellbeing in check;

• Team spirit. Team buildings and parties with games, shows, tastings, food coupons, gifts, and it’s on us;

• More free time. Stay with us and additional vacation days will be added to your calendar;

• Additional paid leave. Additional days are covered by us in cases of illness or special occasions;

• Flexibility. Flexible working time arrangement.

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